XeroxCool
@XeroxCool@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 4 days ago:
Asking questions is great. Testing ideas is fantastic. Discussion is healthy. Getting so combative and argumentative with repaonses to ideas you’re posing as the obvious solution that 8 billion people wandering the Earth now have missed? That’s nowhere near as constructive for the world is it will be for you, in an inverse manner, in a few years.
- Comment on When something still uses micro USB in 2025 4 days ago:
Micro was weak and largely people’s first experience with frequent-use plugging. Cheap cables don’t last long. Car use is abusive, even using the phone while charging is harsh. Moving the phone by the wire. Hard cable angles to keep the phone upright in stands, cup holders, cups, whatever. Rolling the cable tight for storage or travel. Pulling by the cable to unplug instead of by the head. Accidentally tripping on cables or otherwise yanking them. It’s death by 1,000 papercuts for the cable. Shit happens.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 4 days ago:
I can tell you that doctors will not trust the claims of anyone slurring their words. If they can’t identify the person and pull up their records, they’ll do their own diagnostics.
What problem are you trying to solve? In what instance have you experienced an actual doctor say they wish there was an acronym for everything? Frontotemporal dementia is 3 precise bits of data. Two bits tell you what type of dementia, one bit to tell the majority of doctors this isn’t their specialty and just “dementia” is sufficient. And, more importantly, is rooted in Latin - the common root of medical terminology. It’s pronunciation carries further across the world than writing.
- Comment on When something still uses micro USB in 2025 5 days ago:
I’ve had many micro cables get broken, requiring the perfect angle, but never the ports themselves as far as I could tell. I’ve never had a C port fail either and rarely have cable issues. However, any time the C ports require a specific angle to work, I have found they’re packed with lint. It goes with the “click” getting weak as well. Paperclip, Sim card pick, compressed air, a good cheek puff, usually all good after.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 5 days ago:
Sure, because what we need in medicine is more acronyms to occlude meaning.
- Comment on To Catch a Predator's Chris Hansen Planning Roblox Documentary, It's Claimed 2 weeks ago:
Roblox as a platform? OK, whatever, new audience I guess. Have at it
Wait
Oh no, I’ve misunderstood
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 5 weeks ago:
Too much corruption in RAM, need a power cycle
- Comment on Is there ettiquite for following people on Instagram? 5 weeks ago:
I came back to the top to write a leading question: is Instagram going to be the main social network used to communicate? That changes the purpose of following. If not, then here’s my take regarding content alone:
Do I care about their lives? I’ll follow back. Do I like their content? I’ll follow back. Do I not care about their lives and don’t like their content? I don’t follow back.
My interests have major overlap with some opposing ideologies and if they make it a part of their content, I’m not following them. If they post low effort bullshit about their outdoor alcohol without doing any proper photography technique, I don’t need to see that snapshot of their day unless they’re a core person I care about.
If you don’t follow back, they’re probably going to forget within a day. “Oh I don’t check it often”. You’re also allowed to unfollow people if you don’t like their content later. It’s not a big deal. If it’s a big deal to them now, they’ll either figure out it isn’t a big deal later or they’re always going to prioritize something I refuse to. Follow count should be natural but it will always feel like a competition and a measurement of success. Always has been, on every social platform.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 5 weeks ago:
Mutualism? The group wants some puritanical bullshit and knows a tactic to make other services comply
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 5 weeks ago:
Are you sure gun and violence culture is on the chopping block? In the American market?
- Comment on I turned 30 yesterday but I look 18. Nobody believes me when I tell them my age. What do I do? Do I date a 20 year old guy or a 35 year old guy who looks twice my age? 5 weeks ago:
In context, I suspect they meant to say some 30 year olds will be less mature, rather than saying look at a less mature age group, then go even lower
- Comment on Is there an RSS feed for War Thunder updates? 5 weeks ago:
It was over a year last time, I believe. It’s really not as common as it sounds, but it’s a very specific thing that happens in a precise place and certainly makes me want to have a small live display of this counter.
- Comment on In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand? 1 month ago:
… Do you read any social media with Gen z? Shorthand is alive and well, it just changed how it’s shortened.
[disables auto caps]
bro rq wyd tn finna slide by in min fr fr ong v gd story
Brother real quick what’re you doing tonight, fixing to slide by in a minute for real, for real, on god very good story
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 1 month ago:
Is he gonna smoke the kids in his Hokas or is he gonna smoke with the other kids behind the bleachers with his hookah?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I hate being at my inlaws’ for an extended period of time (hours). My spouse hates being at my parents’ in the same time period. You can both have totally normal, comfortable nights at your own parents’ place but find the experience entirely foreign and unsettling at the others’. The type of soap, the number of towels, the default amount of noise, the temperature, the forced formal interactions, the TV shows, the time of dinner, the existence of any activity other than your usual quiet night in, everything. Not wanting to be a disturbance in someone else’s place. Being under a foreign set of rules. Just everything.
Do you feel normal sleeping over an aunt/uncle’s place? A friend’s parents’ place? A hotel? A hostel?
I lived WITH my inlaws for a year. Still can’t stand it. Grateful for the financial relief at the time, but still uncomfortable enough to keep me driven to in debt myself with my own place ASAP.
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 2 months ago:
If that’s your takeaway, sure. It’s more about the 1939 invasion of Poland, the French/British declaring war the same year, the 1940 Blitz bombing of England, and 1940 Battle of France.
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 2 months ago:
“America is the best! Nobody could match our manufacturing!”
Well no, you were just the only hevay industrial country that wasn’t bombed in the 40s. America didn’t rocket ahead through the 60s, they just helped kneecap the competition.
And for the god damn 10th time, Mexico and China didn’t take the manufacturing. They didn’t raid the US and deport Ford to them. Ford walked it all over very politely.
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 2 months ago:
Whenever I’ve seen that, it’s usually in response to America taking the credit for saving the war despite “barely being there”. On the other hand, you could say adding the American force weighed the odds into the allies’ favor, so the swift end wouldn’t have happened naturally . On the other foot, America wouldn’t have built up enough arsenal to have that much effect had they not waited. And on your neighbor’s hand, America seemed to sit idly as they watched nazis be nazis because no no, the guy has some valid points
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 2 months ago:
This sounds like a handful of people I know that believe food stamp programs are flawed and destructive to society. They same a handful of routine abusers and applied that as the norm. 9 people used the stamps appropriately and faded into a nonexistent memory, but the one person that returned food for fash and bought cigarettes and lottery tickets each time was the face they remembered
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 2 months ago:
I believe the proper use cases for the candy bar folds are 2 groups: data-dense users that wish Blackberries and Palm Pilots stuck around or, alternatively, people with poor eyesight. I don’t think video consumption is the main use. Maybe Candy Crush XL or something though
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 2 months ago:
Screen protectors are back in demand on these. I recently learned they’re it ended to be a wear item and are factory installed on the Samsung clam
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 2 months ago:
Like the Aztek, I bet it’ll normalize and seem less obnoxious in a few years as the cars become more commonplace and other manufacturers follow the trend.
Yeah, it felt disingenuous as I built out my sample list when I realized my knowledge of supercars drops off around 2010. New corolla, old corolla, let the reader be the judge. Gonna go back and add some camrys
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 2 months ago:
Supercars are quite small. They have very low roofs and are often quite wide, so your sense of scale is thrown off.
2025 corolla: 182"L x 70"W x 56"H 2000 corolla: 174" x 67" x 55" 2004 murcielago: 180" x 80" x 44"
2006 gallardo: 169 x 75 x 46
2018 huracan: 176 x 76 x 46 2024 296 gtb: 180 x 77 x 47
Xxxx chiron: 179 x 80 x 47
Xxxx F40: 172 x 78 x 44
Even the veyron, a sweaty potato on wheels: 176 x 79 x 47 - Comment on Should I apologize to this person? 2 months ago:
I can’t tell you which to do. The comments so far seem pretty adamant in saying don’t bring it up. So what I can offer is my experience for having done exactly what you think you want to do. Unfortunately, I don’t have any real feedback from the other side.
I had a girlfriend for most of high school. Things weren’t great, but I didn’t know better. We broke up abruptly somewhat shortly after graduation and I was an asshole without remorse. Both of us dated quickly and ended up marrying our next dates (though several years down the line). A few years after the breakup, I started feeling deeply upset about it probably monthly. I had avoided all the high school group meetups because I felt she was entitled to those friends more. But at that point, I was alone and didn’t have my own friends - just my girlfriend’s. I feel this was part of an overall feeling of failure. Low paying job, untapped career path, living with my parents, college dropout, and alone. I still thought about the high school girlfriend often. Not in a luatful or coveting way, just in a caring way? Is she OK, does she hate me, did I cause long term pain, does her family hate me, etc.
So one day, probably 7 years after the breakup, I messaged her. I said I was sorry for the way I acted and for hurting her. I said I was glad she moved on. It felt long on a phone by FB messenger, but it was probably just 6 sentences.
She said none of what happened mattered. We were kids. We didn’t know better and it wasn’t a serious relationship anyway and that it wasn’t a big deal. She then asked if I was OK. Twice. I think she thought I was at risk of harming myself. That was the end of the conversation.
I imagine appearing out of the blue and going straight to a painful period brought back some pain. It hurt me to hear her say years together weren’t important. I can hypothesize she was lying a little bit, either now to downplay it to me or earlier to herself. I can hypothesize I put depressing thoughts of us into her head for a while. I don’t know what effect I had on her from that moment.
But I stopped thinking about her.
I hate to promote causing your friend pain to release yourself, but I don’t know how else to do it. I can guess that was a symptom of my overall mental health rather than the cause of my pain in that time period. So before you do this to free yourself, I ask, are you feeling OK otherwise? Are you dwelling on other mistakes? Are you content with your trajectory?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
My introduction was Xkcd when they hired a mathematician for the weather forecast, then replaced him with a linguist [rollover: and then a software dev]
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 months ago:
You know… I didn’t think about then. Consider the topic fathomed. Thank you
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 months ago:
Interesting. I did get some very mild scratches from keys on my pixel 7 early on. I didn’t think harder glass would come with less scratch resistance. Sure you don’t mean greater tensile strength?
- Comment on 5-minute oil change place 2 months ago:
I don’t have any stat points left to git gud :( automotive has fallen from beloved hobby to strictly necessity
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 months ago:
I swear, most fucked up screens I see are actually temperate glass screen protectors. The cracked protector is proof to them the protector works. I take it as proof a thin piece of glass barely adhered to a flexible chassis is way more prone to failure than the actual screen. I had film protectors until I my pixel 3a. Surprise, screen glass is hard as… Glass.
I cannot fathom why my coworker continually replaces the soft protector on his Samsung flip due to failure at the hinge. . The folding phone. The one that only ever goes in his phone folded.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 months ago:
Pixel 7 here as well. I tried going ceaseless for the first time since I had a Casio Gz’One and dear dog, it’s too damn slippery with the glass back. Regrettably, despite having a case, I managed to crack the screen anyway. It fell face down onto a pointy rock. My first broken screen, ever.